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POTATO FEELING MACHINE. No. 325,078. Patented Aug. 25, 1885.

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POTATO FEELING MACHINE.

Patented Aug. 25,1885.

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CARL EMIL IIFRZOG, OF REUDNITZ, NEAR LEIPSIO, GERMANY.

POTATO-FEELING MACHINE.

CJI ECIFECATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 325,078, dated August 25, 1835.

Application filed August 23, 1884. (Model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CARL EMIL HERZOG, a citizen ofGermany, residingat Reudnitz, near Leipsic, in the Empire of Germany, have in vented a new and useful Potato-Peeling Machine, of which the following a specification.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I represents a front view of myimproved pota tic-peeling machine. Fig. II is a plan or top view ofthe same. Fig. III is aside view and section of the same at line Z Z, Fig. ll. Fig. IV is a view of the under side of the same, and Figs. V and VI are details referred to in the specification.

Similar letters represent similar parts in all the figures.

X is the frame, arranged with a suitable leg or bracket, Y, to attach the machine to a table or stand, and arranged to support the driving-shaft A. and the shafts *2 and C, carrying the heads F F.

The shaft A is provided with the wheels E E, to one of which is attached the crank handle D, meshing into smaller wheels E E, fast on the shafts B and O. The proportions of these wheels are as two to one, about, and produce an equal motion to both shafts B and C as the ends of which theheads F F, provided with pointed edges a a, are attached, and between which heads the potato or other similar article to be peeled is fastened. and held.

To the under side of the frame X a plate, X, isattached capable of being moved toward and away from theshaft A, and held in its normal position by a spring, 7;.

On the shaft A teeth I), forming a screwthread, are made, working into a segment, G, attached to one end of a lever, H, turning on a center, a, fast in the plate X. The lower end ofthis lever H carriestheknife-leverJ, as wcllasthe springd, acting upon thelcver J, so as to press the same toward the shafts B (,or toward the potato held between the heads F F on the ends of said shafts B G.

On the upper end of the knife-levcr J the peeling-knifef(see FigsV and Y1) is attached and capable of being regulated by its screw 0. At the same ti meatongue-piece, f, is attached to the top of said lever J, fitting nearly the inside curvation of the peeling-knife f, and by which and the relative position of this knife f and tongue f the thickness of the peel can be regulated.

By the action of the screw-thread Z) on the shaft A upon the segment G the knife-lever J is moved round the surface of the revolving potato attached between the heads F F of the shafts B and G, the action of the spring d allowing said leverJto move nearer to or farther away from the surface of thepotato,according to the irregularity of its surface or circumference.

The peeling operation always begins near the head F and the shaftC and finishes at the head F on shaft B. When the lever J has arrived at the head F, the operationis completed and the peeled potato ready to be taken away from the heads F F. The motion ofthe shaft A. is then stopped, and the spring-lever K moved toward the leftof the machine, Fig. If, whereby the shaft B will be moved away from the potato, and the projecting points a of the head moved out of the same, when the potato can easily be removed. The lever g, which turns on a center on the frame X, is then moved, whereby its outer end, It, engages with a pin, 1', attached to the plate X, and moves said plate X some distance away from the shaft A against the action of its spring 7:, by which operation thesegment G will be brought clear of the screw-th read I) in the shaft A. A spring, Z, wound around the center it, upon which thelcver H turns, acts then against this lever lLand moves the same,togethcr with the knife-lever J, back again into its normal position, regulated by a projection, in, on the plate X. Another potato to be peeled is then attached to the points a of the head F, and the lever K, being released,will move the shaft Bagain inward,so that the points (6 of the head F enter the potato, and thus secure the same securely between the two heads F F, when the same operation is repeated.

\Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

.l.. In a potato-peeling machine, the combination of the driviugshaft A, provided with teeth I), forming a screw-thread, wheels E E and F. E, shafts .B and G, provided with heads F F, to which the potato is attached, lever H, with segment G, knife-lever J, with ICO peeling-knifef and spring d, and spring-lever In testimony whereofl havesigned my name 10 K, the whole being arranged to operate in the to this specification in the presence oftwo submanner and for the purpose substantially as scribing witnesses. described.

5 2. In combination with the frame X, the CARL EMlL HERZOG.

plate X. having pins 2', spring 70, lever g, lever H, turning on center n, attached to the plate \Vitnesses: X, spring Z, projection m, and knife-lever J, EDMUND EACH, substantially as and for the purpose described. OSWALD SCHMIDT. 

